Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-04


= woman who knows Mary Andsr.
son vel gave me curious exnlanafion
g her indifference to al ruitorv. She
s3ys that when cur Mary fIrst appeared
u England several years apo. aFsd s.an-
tured the heart 81 London. among her
earliest victims was 8 certain voane
duke, and at that time not Of are He
was quite mad about her. and though
ner stepfnther pqrsued with him also
nis tnnexible habit 81 repression. and
saw an advertisement ii the snuhhinr
q duke, the ardent young nobleman
managed to convey some extreEnalv
passionate letters 70 her In the baskets
OF superb flowers which he had handed
over the footiights almost nightly.
The Anderson was half pleased and
halt frightened. The duke was even
az that time very attractive in appear
anee, and his rank and immense
wealth naturally did not detract from
his charms.
she had been carefully instructed be-
Tore leaving here, and had the lesson
dinned IN her ears from Sandy Hook
% TIE Merseys TO turn deaf ear to the
WY words OF titled Britishers. who
we're lordly villains, every one. She
heard and needed, and allowed her
step .paren1s 20 ruthlessly trample upon
the dueal passion. The old man him
seh was decidedly provincial. and he
himself believed that al English no.
Diemen were as enthusiastically and
Immoral e. he had taught Mary. At
that time the impulsixe young man
would have married Mary out oil hand
II be had not been 50 badgered and
suspected by herself and her father:
and 4 they had been q trifie less difi-
ciie she would In this present year of
our Lord be the Duchess Of -. By
the time Miss Anderson returned sec
ond time 70 England she had gained
knowledge sufficient OF the world 20 be
aware Of this fact, and her manner to
ner WhiIom snitof was far less austere,
but he also had been learning IN the
meantime.
Hehad reached his majority and had
had season in London, where moth
ers with manageable daughters teach
a rich young man Of rank his full value.
One little incident of that first season
Of bis Il worth retailing. The unmar-
ried girls Ia London revolted that year
against the grasping, greedy maneu-
Ters Of the young matrons, who were
not content with their own prize, but
were essaying TO keep the eligible bach
elors dangling in their train. This re-
volt took the form Of what was known
IS the Rosebud ball, TO which only one
chaperone was asked. Fifty young
w0menof wealth and position gave the /
dance, each one having the privilege Of |
inviting i've persons. On the morn
ing Of ihe tenth day before the ball
took place the young duke had bulky
mail.
There were fifty invitations to the
Rosebud ball. Each one Of The younger
women had sent TO her friends four
cards, and each one secretly sent the
fifth 10 this most desirable young man.
There was Homerie laughter in Lon
don, and the nobleman whom the act !
ress rejected found himself the chief
cornerstone Of eligibility. He renewed
his attentions to Miss Anderson, bat in
chAstened form; since which time, |
though he has always been most civil
10 her, he has not put himself in po-
sition 10 be rejected. Some Of his
friends, possibly Miss Anderson her
self, believe that he has never really
cared for any other woman and win
eventually ask her to be his wife, and
meantime she receives the advances OF /
all other men with cool sweetness and
refusal. Brooklyn Citizen.